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keithnzyesterday at 8:04 PM0 repliesview on HN

I know, it's weird. I'm really excited about it, but somehow there's a bunch of people on here who are largely negative about it all and make weirdly misinformed statements, it's like they haven't really tried it, they think they have, but it's often obvious they tried it early last year or didn't really get it. I think minimum you need to vibe code a piece of software of some sort. Don't write a single line of code just prompt your way to a finished product. This is going to tell you a lot. First, thing you start realizing, your approach to prompting makes a big difference to what you get. You really need to think about the design/feature set of your program you are making. For me, it just became plainly obvious coding was more of a hinderance and I was too busy thinking about the application itself, features and how they should work together. Not that it's all happy days, still problems occur at the code level. But once you get to this stage you start having a really clear idea of its strengths and weaknesses. For me, I actually find myself thinking a lot more, having a lot more ideas, experimenting more and iterating a lot faster.